Five students and a lecturer from Bermuda College have returned to the Island from Brazil where they took part in a Model United Nations Conference.

The six participated in the 11th Annual Harvard World United Nations Conference in Belo Horizonte between March 24 and 29.

The college was represented in four committees:

Organisation of American States

UN Commission on Human Rights

UN Development Programme

Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee

Topics included globalisation and inequality, preservation of culture, and human rights violations in Chechnya.

The committees simulated the actual format and content of UN debate and UN style resolutions were ultimately developed after days of debate and compromise.

A statement from the college said: "Bermuda College students, Sarina Bean, Deshae DeShields, Michael Fisher, Shaynell Harvey and Letitia Francis represented the college and Bermuda extremely well against top students from major universities from countries all over the world."

Ms Bean won the second place delegate award for participation in the Organisation of American States, and Michael Fisher won the third place delegate award in the UN Development Programme.

Jeremiah Faries, psychology lecturer at the college, accompanied the group to Brazil.